1652 papers
Nuclear theory sits at the fascinating intersection of particle physics and the forces that hold our universe together. This field explores how protons and neutrons bind inside atomic nuclei, seeking to understand the fundamental interactions that govern matter at its most dense and energetic levels. While the mathematics involved can be incredibly complex, the core questions are deeply human: how does the universe function at its smallest scales, and what happens when we push matter to its limits?
At Gist.Science, we make these cutting-edge discoveries accessible by processing every new preprint published in this category on arXiv. Our team transforms dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language summaries alongside detailed technical overviews, ensuring that both experts and curious readers can grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in the jargon. Below are the latest papers in nuclear theory, distilled and ready for you to explore.
This study investigates how the increase in symmetry energy and chaotic magnetic fields influence the structural properties and gravitational wave observables of neutron stars, and demonstrates that magnetic fields significantly soften the equation of state for low-mass stars and markedly reduce their tidal deformability.
The paper proposes that steep matter-density gradients in neutron star interiors can produce neutrino-antineutrino pairs through a mechanism analogous to the Schwinger effect, potentially offering a new way to probe neutron star structure and dense QCD.
This paper provides a unified theoretical framework for the angular structure of energy-energy correlators (EECs) in heavy-ion collisions, demonstrating how they transition from being dominated by collective hydrodynamic flow at large angles to being controlled by hydrodynamic modes and light-ray operator product expansions at smaller angles.
This paper presents a global analysis of HERA data using a next-to-leading order (NLO+NLL) Balitsky-Kovchegov framework to extract the non-perturbative initial conditions for the Color Glass Condensate, utilizing a Bayesian approach to provide a streamlined method for estimating theoretical uncertainties.
This paper demonstrates that the accumulation of states in various rare earth nuclei can be microscopically explained using the pseudo-SU(3) model, highlighting the essential role of the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the microscopic Hilbert space in understanding these spectra.
This paper investigates how different treatments of mass loss and convective overshooting influence the pre-collapse core properties and neutrino emission of red supergiants, demonstrating that these factors significantly alter the star's thermal structure, isotopic composition, and the resulting neutrino spectra in the final days before collapse.
This review examines how extreme magnetic fields in magnetars influence the microscopic properties of dense fermionic matter and the resulting macroscopic structure and composition of compact stars.
This paper presents a Regge exchange model analysis of high-energy polarized photoproduction data from GlueX and SLAC, using spin density matrix elements to constrain helicity amplitudes and providing the first extractions of several meson-nucleon-delta coupling constants.
This paper introduces a new thermodynamic state function to compute high-order temperature fluctuations in hot QCD matter, revealing that these fluctuations are significantly suppressed and exhibit negative skewness during the transition from a hadron resonance gas to a quark-gluon plasma due to the increased heat capacity of the latter.
This paper introduces a renormalization-group invariant mean-field approach to the Parity-Doublet Model that incorporates baryonic vacuum contributions, enabling a consistent analysis of chiral symmetry restoration in nuclear and neutron-star matter across relevant densities and temperatures.